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Re: lynx-dev Autoconf EBCDIC test simplification [PATCH]
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Autoconf EBCDIC test simplification [PATCH] |
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Mon, 1 Jan 2001 13:53:55 -0500 |
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On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 11:38:48AM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello, Lyncei,
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> It occurred to me suddenly, however belatedly, how Rube Goldbergian it is
> to have a couple dozen lines in aclocal.m4 which expand to more lines
> in configure which cause a compilation to be performed which merely
> succeeds or fails depending on a #if so that configure can set a flag
> in config.cache so code in config.hin can cause configure to later test
> that flag and possibly cause a couple macros to be defined in lynx_cfg.h.
you would probably appreciate the configure script which I wrote for tin,
which relies on including some of the files to be built to get the right
flavor of definitions for network libraries...
> (I know how I got to this point, but no matter.) It's simpler, of course
> to put the #if's and macro definitions directly in a header file.
> I'm biased, of course, by the extreme expense of a compilation on OS/390.
> Patch (attached) simplifies aclocal.m4 and config.hin and puts the #if's
> and #define's directly in HTUtils.h.
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> Subject as always to editorial discretion, lest the editor(s) decide
> that this technique reduces portability, or merely that HTUtils.h is
> not the optimum place to put this code.
I guess that will work...
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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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